HOPKINS, Richard L., editor.

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2008, First Edition, Limited to 150 numbered copies. quarto, quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides, leather spine label, in matching clamshell case. 194 pp. Bird & Bull Press, From the prospectus: "The private press has been with us in one form or another for... Item #25831

BRINKS, John Dieter (editor).

Williamstown: Chapin Library of the Williams College, 2005, First Edition. quarto, cloth in black slipcase. 456pp. Chapin Library of the Williams College, The Cranach Press, though located in Germany, was inspired by and became an integral product of the English private press movement. Following advice from Emery Walker, new typefaces... Item #14376

Koch, Peter Rutledge, Nina M. Schneider, et al.

Berkeley: Editions Koch and Stanford University Libraries, 2017, First Edition. quarto, wrappers in slipcase. 492 pp. Editions Koch and Stanford University Libraries, A descriptive bibliography in three volumes, published in conjunction with the exhibition "Peter Koch Printer: A Forty-year Retrospective" at the Green Library, Stanford University, May - October, 2017... Item #26351

American Printing History Association, 2006, First Edition, Limited to 225 copies. 6" x 9" blue cloth clamshell traycase. various. American Printing History Association, Various typographic arrangements of poems, both contemporary and classic, using a variety of typefaces, colors, formats, and papers, all printed letterpress. The poems were selected by the... Item #16165

HAMMER, Victor.

New York: George Wittenborn Inc, 1957, Limited to 252 numbered copies. octavo, printed boards in dust jacket. (108) pp. George Wittenborn Inc, Boards covered in unused sheets from Opus XIII, each copy different. This example is the dialogue between the Craftsman and his Patron, printed in red and black. Printed... Item #26363

CATICH, Edward M.

Davenport, IA: St. Ambrose University, (1991), Second edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. (xii), 310pp. St. Ambrose University, Edited by Mary W. Gilroy. Illustrated and printed with accents and capitals and headlines in green or rust or both. The serif originated with Roman inscription letters, its history and development here... Item #11620

STAIKOS, Konstantinos Sp.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009, First Edition. quarto, decorated boards. 254 pp. Oak Knoll Press, This book contains reproductions of the printers and publishers marks of all those - both Greeks and non-Greeks - who printed or published books for Greek readers from the dawn of typography until... Item #21212

MUZIKA, Frantisek.

Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi, 1958, First Edition. quarto, black cloth stamped in gilt in dust jackets. 657; 656 pp. Statni Nakladatelstvi, A critical examination of the two millennia of the Roman letter and a description of its development in the light of changes in tastes, fashions and aesthetic theory throughout modern... Item #26388

CATICH, Edward M.

Davenport, IA: St. Ambrose University, (1991), Second edition. quarto, pictorial wrappers. (xii), 310pp. St. Ambrose University, Edited by Mary W. Gilroy. Illustrated and printed with accents and capitals and headlines in green or rust or both. The serif originated with Roman inscription letters, its history and development here detailed in... Item #24485

FLETCHER, H. George.

New York: The Grolier Club, 2012, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth. 118 pp. The Grolier Club, This volume was produced to accompany an exhibition held at the Grolier Club from December 6, 2011 to February 4, 2012, on the history of the French national typographic and printing establishment, the Imprimerie... Item #22829

HOPKINS, Richard L.

Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2013, First Edition, Limited to 300 copies. large octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 232 pp. University of Tampa Press, Tolbert Lanston, at the end of the nineteenth century, was a man obsessed with the idea of creating a machine which would provide automated typesetting... Item #22830

CARTER, Sebastian.

(Over): Rampant Lions Press, 1998, First Edition, Limited to 225 numbered copies. octavo, boards and cloth, in original acetate. 52 leaves. Rampant Lions Press, This ' Miscellany 2,' like the first one, is a mixture of completed and projected work, and some pieces done just for the fun of it... Item #23534

DAIR, Carl.

Toronto; New Castle: Coach House Press; Oak Knoll Press, 2015, First Edition. quarto, cloth. 130 pp., with DVD. Coach House Press; Oak Knoll Press, Illustrated in color. Carl Dair (1912-1967) received a year grant from the Royal Society of Canada to apprentice at the famous Enschede type foundry in 1956... Item #25384

GLICK, William J.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 208 pp. Oak Knoll Press, In the Service of Scholarship is a history of one of the leading printing firms of the twentieth century. It is also a character study and biography of Harold Hugo (1910-1985)... Item #26470

HAMMER, Carolyn, editor.

Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1988, First Edition, Limited to 200 copies. quarto, tan cloth in plain cardboard slipcase, as issued. (307) pp. The Anvil Press, Designed by Martino Mardersteig in Dante type and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Foreword by Carolyn Hammer and followed by an Autobiographical Sketch. Chapters by... Item #26354

ZAPF, Hermann.

New York: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2015, First Edition. oblong octavo, imported cloth with pasted spine label. 160 pp.; with 71 pages of full-color facsimiles. Kelly-Winterton Press, The facsimiles are reproduced at original size with the artwork on right-hand pages only. In 1939, just as he was beginning his career as a.... Item #25747

BRINGHURST, Robert.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (2016), First Trade Edition. One of 1,000 copies printed. octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. (295) pp. David R. Godine, Publisher, Last spring the world lost one of the greatest practitioners of the graphic arts of the past century. Hermann Zapf, born in 1918, died... Item #25724

CARTER, Sebastian.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2013, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 208 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Founded by Will Carter in 1924, the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge, England, established itself as one of the leading letterpress workshops in the decades after the Second World War. Will was... Item #23532

CLOUSE, Doug.

(New Castle): Oak Knoll Press, 2008, First Edition. quarto, (176) pp. Oak Knoll Press, This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis... Item #18179